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3) If it existed, is it not possible to find and obtain it?
4) Cannot we p u r c h a s e from the Scheidemanns & Co. (after all, they are venal scoundrels) letters of Marx and Engels? or purchase photographs?
5) Is there any hope of gathering in Moscow everything published by Marx and Engels?
6) Is there a catalogue of what has already been gathered here?
7) Are we collecting the letters of Marx and Engels (or copies), or is this not feasible?
With communist greetings,
Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE

Direct wire via Rostov-on-Don to Baku*
February 5, 1921

We have not yet received a reply to the coded telegram sent you by Stalin under No. 1225 from January 27. We are very concerned and ask you to answer us immediately.

Lenin

Printed from 
the original 
signed by 
V. I. Lenin.

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LETTER TO THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN 
OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL 
OF THE REPUBLIC

February 6, 1921

Send me the telegram from the Saratov Provincial Military Command, the "response" to which the Commander-in-Chief sent me today.

* On the telegram a note: "Deliver through the duty political commissar. Report delivery immediately."

1921–1922

The response is stupid and in places illiterate.
A bureaucratic brush-off instead of action! One must destroy banditry, not issue brush-offs.
Let them give me b r i e f, the very briefest summaries of the struggle against banditry twice a week.
And impress upon the Field Staff that they must work, not issue brush-offs.
Who is this "military commissar of the staff" Ilyushin, what is his service record?

Lenin

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LETTER TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL 
OF THE REPUBLIC

February 12, 1921

Unheard of and incredible things are happening with our communications.
Both I and Stalin cannot reach O r d z h o n i k i d z e on the most important matters, Fomin—cannot reach a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Caucasian Front.
Send, with reference to me directly, an urgent telegram to Rostov-on-Don, have them immediately appoint a r e s p o n s i b l e p e r s o n there, who shall be obliged t o m a i n t a i n c o m m u n i c a t i o n with both and give their answers (give them constantly) to me, Stalin, and Fomin (from both).
If this is not done, I shall bring legal proceedings (or shall seek the dismissal and arrest) against the responsible persons here. This is intolerable.

Lenin

P.S. This is already complete disintegration of the upper ranks of the army!
No c o m m u n i c a t i o n (\\) with such officials as Ordzhonikidze!!

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